LeadDev

Inclusive leadership across cultures: Practical patterns for global engineering teams

The real impact of AI on software engineering

Your AI coding spend is soaring, but can you prove its ROI?

What does a CTO even do?

Planning next moves: improving performance when half your stack is someone else's problem

Game time: A playbook to (unsuccessfully) 10x in a week and (successfully) 10x in a year

Reading the game: Mental skills for high-performing engineering teams

Mentoring that actually changes careers

Four dimensions of burnout: An anti-burnout framework for the AI era

AI in the trenches: Real-world wins without breaking things

Platform Engineering for Developers, Architects & the Rest of Us (AI Agents)

LeadDev, a software engineer, introduces the fundamentals of launching a podcast while reflecting on personal professional experiences. The discussion centers on the practical steps required to get started in the medium, framed by a historical perspective on podcasting's evolution. Key insights include the transition f...

Crowdsourcing platform engineering

Don’t wait for an outage to improve your reliability

Governance is the platform problem worth solving

Governing AI agents in software delivery requires moving beyond human-centric policies toward automated, context-aware frameworks. As organizations integrate agents into DevOps, testing, and observability, the primary challenge shifts from writing code to ensuring secure, reliable, and compliant production deployments....

Effective verification for humans and agents

The AI-augmented leader: Architecting your own virtual chief of staff

AI-augmented leadership leverages specialized AI agents to automate administrative burdens, allowing managers to focus on high-impact, human-centric responsibilities. By delegating tasks like scheduling, data analysis, project tracking, and communication monitoring to a suite of personalized agents, leaders can reclaim...

Guardrails, not gates: Scaling juniors in the AI era

How to grow your engineers into great leaders

The story box

We doubled engineering productivity at eBay, but couldn't change culture

Engineering productivity at eBay doubled through the "Velocity" initiative, which utilized a standard DevOps transformation playbook to systematically identify and remove bottlenecks in build times, testing, and deployment. By applying the Deming cycle and fostering collaboration between platform and product teams, the...